Wildlife

One career just isn’t enough for these moonlighting celebrities

Celebrities go moonlighting

Plucky chaps

1. Guitar is the perfect instrument for Johnny Depp – he doesn’t even need to change out of his Pirates of the Caribbean costume.

2. Hugh Laurie’s sideline as an England footballer didn’t work out, so he turned to music instead. Here he is in Chicago in 2010.

3. People who work in the precarious business of entertainment are often advised to have a sensible career that they can fall back on. Steve Martin, the American comedian, chose the banjo.

Photo ops

4. Here’s Kendall Jenner moonlighting as a photographer, presumably of birds. Who needs a hide when you have coat plumage like hers?

5. Leaving no merchandising opportunity unexplored, Scarlett Johansson and her husband launched a popcorn shop in Paris in October 2016.

6. After years of ruining fabrics by slashing Zs into them with a sword, The Mask of Zorro star Antonio Banderas thought he’d better give something back to the world of clothes. Here he is enrolling on a fashion course at Central Saint Martins in 2015.

Different strokes

7. Frugality is of great importance to the Royal family. Here’s Prince Philip, pictured in 1969, teaching himself how to paint the family portraits.

8. Even for a Wimbledon champion like Andy Murray, all-white can be intimidating. WE ALL OF US have our hankerings for second careers. Perhaps you paint in your spare time, or you sing, or you write. Or perhaps you dream of becoming a shepherd, or a potter, or a sandwich designer (I am available for hire), or a burlesque dancer (I am not available for hire). High achievers often make good jobs of their sidelines: take the Supreme Court judge who writes histories, or the England striker Harry Kane, who is working on solving maths problems like the twin prime conjecture (maybe). Second careers, then: mostly to be encouraged. Unless you’re a property developer-turned-reality TV participant. Then just quit while you’re ahead, yeah? — Tom Ough